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    <p>
The AssemblyLink class describes the relationships between different
seq_regions. For example, a chromosome might consist of a number of
scaffolds, each of which in turn consists of a number of contigs. The
AssemblyLink class This class is an interface to the assembly table of the
Ensembl mysql database.
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This class uses ActiveRecord to access data in the Ensembl database. See
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      <pre class="example code"><span class='chr4 identifier id'>chr4</span> <span class='assign token'>=</span> <span class='SeqRegion constant id'>SeqRegion</span><span class='dot token'>.</span><span class='find_by_name identifier id'>find_by_name</span><span class='lparen token'>(</span><span class='string val'>'4'</span><span class='rparen token'>)</span>
<span class='puts identifier id'>puts</span> <span class='chr4 identifier id'>chr4</span><span class='dot token'>.</span><span class='coord_system identifier id'>coord_system</span><span class='dot token'>.</span><span class='name identifier id'>name</span>     <span class='comment val'>#--&gt; 'chromosome'</span>
<span class='chr4 identifier id'>chr4</span><span class='dot token'>.</span><span class='genes identifier id'>genes</span><span class='dot token'>.</span><span class='each identifier id'>each</span> <span class='do do kw'>do</span> <span class='bitor op'>|</span><span class='gene identifier id'>gene</span><span class='bitor op'>|</span>
  <span class='puts identifier id'>puts</span> <span class='gene identifier id'>gene</span><span class='dot token'>.</span><span class='biotype identifier id'>biotype</span>
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